gawks

Example Sentences

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The crowd gawks at her — devout eyes wide, lips parted as if witnessing a miracle.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Anyone who sits through the end credits of a franchise movie and gawks at screens filled with hundreds of names of special effects and visual effects crew knows most of the is digitally animated.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2024

The sweet little shrug that the grown-up, matronly Dakota Johnson gives to Dismukes, as he gawks at her younger self strutting around the stage, makes the entire sketch worthwhile.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2024

You can’t get strangers to help you lay that foundation — the world gawks, it can’t help itself — but you can ask the grandmas and certainly the teachers to.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2022

A little boy gawks at them with a wide-open mouth.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon